Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Edward Elgar
Orchestra: Kansas City Symphony
Conductor: Michael Stern
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Reference
Release: 2013
Size: 1.56 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Vaughan Williams – The Wasps, Aristophanic Suite:
01. Overture
02. Entr’acte, molto moderato
03. March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
04. Entr’acte, andante
05. Ballet and Final Tableau
06. Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on “Greensleeves”
Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations, Op. 36
07. Variation I
08. Variation II
09. Variation III
10. Variation IV
11. Variation V
12. Variation VI
13. Variation VII
14. Variation VIII
15. Variation IX
16. Variation X
17. Variation XI
18. Variation XII
19. Variation XIII
20. Variation XIV
This is an exceptional disc in so many ways…The Kansas orchestral playing is flamboyant, assured, but always affectionate, and the recorded sound is possibly the most realistic I’ve come across…[Stern’s] reading is full of character, managing to make the piece seem far more than a string of miniatures…This is already in my end-of-year Top 10 list.